Benjamin Feliksdal

He was taught classical ballet and modern dance by well-known Dutch pedagogues such as Florrie Rodrigo, Ineke Sluiter and Lucas Hoving.

To finish his training he went to Rome in 1959 to study with the Dutch dancer and teacher Pieter van der Sloot and to the Rambert School of Ballet in London for special coaching.

During his performing career with Het Nationale Ballet he was a principal dancer, partnering Yvonne Vendrig, Maria Bovet, Jessica Folkerts and Olga de Haas.

He danced different roles with this company: Swan Lake, Von Rothbart; Romeo and Juliet, Tybaldo; Apollo, Apollo; La Bayadère, Solor; Le Prisonnier du Caucase, The Eagle; Les Présages; Suite en Blanc; Pas de Trois; The Four Temperaments; Symphony in C; Monument for a Dead Boy; The Green Table; Jungle; Night Island; Designs with Strings; Concerto Barocco; The Miraculous Mandarin; and Serenade.

As a choreographer he had assignments in the Netherlands with The Theater Dance Workshop Company, Amsterdam; with Ballet Arabesque, Sofia, Bulgaria; Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin BRD; Bat-Dor Company and School, Tel Aviv; and TV productions in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria.